Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Effectively , the group consists of experienced barristers between the ages of forty-five and sixty and the number of genuine possibilities — the short list — may be as small as half a dozen . |
| 2 | Success followed success for the next few years but no races were held in 1888 and 1890 and the revival in 1891 was the beginning of another era with new builders entering the field although Lee 's still took an interest in events for in 1900 their steamboat " Lee " dressed overall took 80 members of the firm to see the Medway Barge Race . |
| 3 | It is noticeable that major areas of salt swell and piercement in central parts of Quadrant 47 and 48 and the west of Quadrant 49 are associated with the areas of anomalous uplift . |
| 4 | The pH remains between 7 and 7.5 and the water is moderately hard . |
| 5 | Mechanical contractors for the crude tanks 2045 and 2055 and the ballast water tank 3015 were Motherwell Bridge , the company which originally constructed the storage tanks . |
| 6 | Aelfwald was residing in the far north of his kingdom when George arrived in Northumbria in 786 and this and the association of his cult with Hexham seem to locate this Bernician prince essentially outside Deira . |
| 7 | The rough grassland/moor area declined by 23% between 1970/71 and 1979/80 and the area of permanent grassland increased ( and the total utilised agricultural area ) . |
| 8 | Although two of its directors were killed during the fighting between 1975 and 1979 and the building suffered badly from neglect , most of the National Museum 's collection survived . |
| 9 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 10 | Having plunged into the heartland of the Japanese-dominated midrange 4 × 4 sector with a Discovery pared to three doors and with an excellent new turbo-diesel or the old carburettored V-8 petrol to compete on price , they have now set about protecting the upper echelons by adding doors three and four and the injection version of the stalwart V-8 . |
| 11 | By 112 votes to 30 , the House of Assembly ( the white chamber of the tricameral Parliament ) passed the Repeal of Discriminatory Land Measures Act on June 5 , effectively nullifying the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 . |
| 12 | In all these solutions the space-time can only be extended uniquely up to the fold singularities in regions II and III and the surface in region IV on which . |
| 13 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 14 | The connections between pins 4 and 6 and the battery negative line keep the unused inputs which exist on the 4013 at Logic O and prevent false operation . |
| 15 | Support can be seen in the upsurge of working-class activity that accompanied the strikes of 1978 and 1979 and the way that the union 's leader , Lula , became such a popular figure . |
| 16 | Example 4 gives a comparison between a single-note melody in bars 1 and 2 and the melody harmonised in 4ths in bars 3 and 4 . |
| 17 | Note however that the electric field is different on Sections 1 and 3 and the line integrals on Sections 2 and 4 vanish altogether ( because the path is perpendicular to the electric field ) . |
| 18 | Research International says that the proportion of farmers under 35 dropped from 39 to 14 per cent between 1987 and 1991 and the number with under 10 years ' experience dropped from 10 per cent to four per cent . |
| 19 | Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital . |
| 20 | In fact , it almost doubled in the OECD between 1970 and 1987 and the trend remains upward . |
| 21 | There were two children aged nine and seven and the father was determined to involve them as much as possible in talking about all that had gone on . |
| 22 | He is also chasing BS5750 accreditation for the school , a move he describes as a ‘ major step forward in military thinking ’ , and similar is tone to new officers ' courses graded at post-graduate levels one and two and the MBA course he is personally involved in , being run in conjunction with Bournemouth University . |
| 23 | This paper refers to the objectives one and three and the incidence of recurrent disease will be the subject of a later report . |
| 24 | The outcomes of these conflicting interests are enshrined in the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968 and the Deposit of Poisonous Wastes Act 1972 . |
| 25 | Thus the increase in gonorrhoea in men attending genitourinary medicine clinics in 1989 and 1990 and the increase in rectal isolates of N gonorrhoeae in men suggest that the behaviour associated with risk of HIV-1 transmission among homosexual men has also increased . |
| 26 | If the distribution of births by social class between 1965 and 1976 and the propensity of each class to enter HE had remained constant then this would not have affected the demand for HE . |
| 27 | The note to which I refer of six er page six seven five reads as follows , the words omitted from sub-sections one , four and five and the whole of sub-section three were repealed and sub-section six was substituted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , sections one hundred and ninety-six one two , two hundred and seventy-two one , Schedule thirty , the words in square brackets in sub-section one and in the first pair of square brackets in sub-section two , were substituted and the words omitted from para two B , paragraph two B and the whole of paragraph two C , both of which had been inserted by the Local Government Act nineteen seventy two , section two hundred and seventeen , schedule twenty- seven , part two , paragraph eighteen were repealed . |
| 28 | We are prepared to question some of the cult phrases of the sixties and seventies and the level of involvement they advocated . |
| 29 | Barron and Curnow ( 1979 ) have suggested that electronics will be the technological development associated with the fourth wave , with the first , growth , phase being in the 1950s and 1960s and the second , recessive , phase now being moved into . |
| 30 | The school had begun to fail in the forties and fifties and the number of pupils declined to fifteen , to ten , to three . |